Importance Quotes - Page 2

• I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

  Burton Silverman

  Believe, Important, Way

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• Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Giving, Imagination, Focus

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• It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

  Bridget Riley

  Moving, Eye, Mind

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

  Luc Tuymans

  Eye, People, Important

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• Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.

  Honore Daumier

  Government, Discovery, Important

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• Time is not important, but art is.

  Edward Betts

  Art, Important, Art Is

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• Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

  Sara Genn

  Ebb And Flow, Creative, Tasks

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• Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Priorities, Commodity

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• When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

  John French Sloan

  People, Important, Crowds

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• The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

  Robert Moss

  Simple, Secret, Important

  Robert Moss (2012). “Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole”, p.13, New World Library

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• You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

  Harvey Dunn

  Important, Hats, Ifs

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• From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions... That is still true.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, People, Fake

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• Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

  Paul Laseau

  Reading, Writing, Creativity

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• It hurts because it mattered.

  John Green

  Hurt, Feelings, Important

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• The words that matter always stay.

  David Levithan

  Meaningful, Important, Unspoken Words

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

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• No one is any more or any less important than you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2011

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Life, Nature, Fate

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• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

  Harry Bridges

  Class, Unity, Important

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• The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

  Julie B. Beck

  Skills, Personality, Important

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Life, Weed

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• It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Meaningful, Time, Sacrifice

  Anne Graham Lotz (2014). “Heaven: My Father's House”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

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